Chinese-Japanese-Korean (CJK) Catalogue Skills

Romanisation Systems for CJK language materials

(1) The following romanisation systems are adopted for CJK langauge materials

• Hepburn for Japanese materials
• McCune-Reichauer for Korean materials
• Pinyin for Chinese materials

(2) Pinyin Romanisation rules

Adopts Library of Congress " Chinese romanization guidelines".

• Adopts single syllable Pinyin, eg. Wen xue shi liao cong bian
• Personal name: joins together, eg. Deng Xiaoping, Shen Congwen
• Established name: follows Library of Congress practice, eg. Confucius
• Geographical name: follows US Board of Geographical Names. For details, see "Romanization of Chinese geographic names in descriptive and subject headings".

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Libraries Australia

Libraries Australia (formerly known a Kinetica) allows you to search for material held in Australian and overseas Libraries, including CJK materials.
Access

To view CJK script, change your browser's encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
To input CJK script, use IMEs (Input Method Editors).

Guide

The University of Melbourne CJK Catalogue

Access to CJK Web opac : http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/screens/opacmenu.html

To view CJK script, change your browser's encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
To input CJK script, use IMEs (Input Method Editors).

 

The CJK bibliographic database

• Chinese language materials in INNOPAC adopt Pinyin romanisation. Japanese Lanugage materials adopt Hepburn System.
• 70% of the CJK bibliographic records contains CJK characters. It is recommended to use romanised form for catalog searches.
• EA staffuse materials and Chinese language materials which are stored at Lincoln Store are not at INNOPAC. Please check the East Asian Collection card catalogue in Wade-Giles Romanisation for bibliographic details.  (Romanization Chart for Chinese Conversion from Pinyin to Wade-Giles System )
• Western language materials translated from Chinese catalogued before 2000 may still adopt Wade-Giles Romanisation.

• Basic catalogue search tips
• Chinese Bibliographic record display

• Japanese bibliographic display

• INNOPAC features

1. Export : The " Export" function allows you to mark records for saving. The " Export Saved List" function allows you to save marked records onto disk or e-mail the list to your email address. Export formats include Full Display, Brief display, Pro-Cite , End-note, MARC..
2. Limit search: If you find more than 50 records when you search the library catalogue it is probably not a good search. You may need to refine the search using operators. The "limit" function allows you to limit search results by Monograph/Serial, YEAR of publication, MATERRIAL type, LANGUAGE, PUBLISHER, WHERE Item is located, COUNTRY of publication.

• East Asian Collection Location Codes

• UniM Baill EA ef ... elephant folios (on request)
• UniM Baill EA ...... items in the general collection
• UniM Baill EA REF .. reference (not for loan)
• UniM Baill EA REF .. reference (not for loan)
• UniM Baill EAstaff Use ...... closed stack (for staff and postgraduate students)
• UniM Baill EA P ....... Periodical
• UniM Baill MIC ..... Microform item (in microforms collection , Basement, Baillieu)
• UniM STO ........... Kidd's Store

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